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“There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.”
-- Albert Camus
#Change #Fate #Destiny
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“No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.”
-- Albert Camus
#People #Causes #Innocent
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“Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.”
-- Albert Camus
#Strange #Rebellion #Form
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“In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul”
-- Albert Camus
#Art #Dark #Order
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“Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.”
-- Albert Camus
#Men #Want #Eras
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“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
-- Albert Camus
#Secret #Tears #Looks
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“We [Raymond and Meursault] stared at each other without blinking, and everything came to a stop there between the sea, the sand, and the sun, and the double silence of the flute and the water. It was then that I realized that you could either shoot or not shoot.”
-- Albert Camus
#Sea #Water #Silence
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“A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.”
-- Albert Camus
#Writing #Character #May
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“Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.”
-- Albert Camus
#Secret #Faces #Great Work
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“Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.”
-- Albert Camus
#Stars #Sleep #Night
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“Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.”
-- Albert Camus
#Grief #Men #Justice
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“Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?”
-- Albert Camus
#Order #Essentials #Should
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“Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.”
-- Albert Camus
#Death #Punishment #Dying
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“Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.”
-- Albert Camus
#Cynical #Political #Democracy
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“There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.”
-- Albert Camus
#Unjust #Never Change #Lows
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“The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.”
-- Albert Camus
#Real #Passion #Century
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“As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.”
-- Albert Camus
#Life #Mean #Cities
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“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.”
-- Albert Camus
#Inspirational #Motivational #New Year
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“The society based on production is only productive, not creative.”
-- Albert Camus
#Creativity #Knowledge #Ideas
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“Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.”
-- Albert Camus
#Love #Intelligent #Doe
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“In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality ... we can no longer hope to save everything, but ... we can at least try to save lives, so that some kind of future, if perhaps not the ideal one, will remain possible.”
-- Albert Camus
#Struggle #Reality #Years
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“Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.”
-- Albert Camus
#Friendship #Kindness #Compassion
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“Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.”
-- Albert Camus
#Life #Art #Freedom
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“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”
-- Albert Camus
#Truth #Essentials #Firsts
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“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”
-- Albert Camus
#Order #Solitude #World
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“Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.”
-- Albert Camus
#Time #Long #Take Time
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“To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.”
-- Albert Camus
#Love #Principles #Impossible
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“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.”
-- Albert Camus
#Life #Hope #Despair
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“In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.”
-- Albert Camus
#Order #Atheism #World
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“Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.”
-- Albert Camus
#History #Encounters #Want
